In her column today, Peggy Noonan displays some of that feminine wisdom which once made me love her. She doesn’t think the race is over and acknowledges the media bias: “The press knows who the press is for, and it isn’t generally the one to the right.”
She faults McCain for not understanding that challenge:
What has also been true is that the Republican had to get around it with the truth of his stands, the force of his arguments, the un-ignorability of his words, the power of his presence. You have to go over the head of the interpreters and gently seize the country by its lapels.
She’s amazed at how well McCain is doing given all that he’s up against: “this is the worst Republican year in generations. Amid two wars, a deep economic crisis, a fractured base, too much cynicism, and a campaign with the wind not at its back but head on in its face.”
And while she finds Barack Obama decisive when it come to advancing own career:
But when it comes to decisions that have to do with larger issues, with great questions and not with him, things get murkier. There is the long trail of the missed and “present” votes, the hesitance on big questions. One wonders if in the presidency he’ll be like the dog that chased the car and caught it: What’s he supposed to do now?
That goes to the heart of my problem with Obama. We just don’t know how he’ll react when he has to be the final decision maker. As Peggy notes, he’s not a “buck stops here” kind of guy. His career suggest that on important matters, he’d rather just pass the buck.
But, as president, you can’t do that.
B. Hussein Obama did say in the second(?) debate that he would have good ol’ Joe in the Oval Office with him when it was time to make decisions. Or he can alway s turn to the racist bigot Jeremiah Wright, the communist/terrorist two-fer neighbor Ayers, his good real estate pal Rezko, his other neighbor Louis Farrakhan (who said Hitler was a great man), or maybe he will even arrange to get his dear friends Odinga and Chavez to kick in some ideas. Perhaps the Saudi’s, Hamas and other Islamofacists who have funded him and pulled the strings will IM him with what to do . . .
He is an empty suit who has manipulated and lied his way all his life. He has insulted his own grandmother who sacrificed to send him to an expensive private school – whom he now so “tenderly” has gone to see. (REALITY CHECK side bar: he has gone back to Hawaii to help ensure (with his campaign funding) that his birth certificate gets found to show he really was born in the US, not in Kenya. Some portion of his recent $200M windfall should surely allow a person to buy a US birth certificate.)
They only legislation I have found any action from him on was to not stop partial birth abortions. He took passive-aggressive action to facilitate the continuation of a barbaric practice. Anyone that believes children are a punishment, (Audacity of Hope reference), and openly supports infanticide, has no place being in the White House, except maybe a public tour.
And for any GLBT who thinks abortion is fine and dandy – as science better maps the genome, and develop an in vitro test for homosexual DNA – consider the ramifications . . .
God save us from this communist atheist! He will make Jimmy Carter look like a genius while destroying the American way of life.
He’ll be running for president of the galaxy by next summer. And don’t worry, Joe Biden promises to answer the Obamaphone if we need him.
Finally someone writes an article that makes the point that needed to be made about four weeks ago. Obama in a crisis will rather just vote present or punt. I am sure that this article will not get near the attention of her remarks and article that were critical of Palin.
Peggy Noonan, desperately trying to reclaim the respect that she threw away with her I-Hate-Palin rants.
Won’t work, Pegs. Reagan would’ve been disappointed in you.
Peggy Noonan needs to move to Omaha for a few years and change her social set. She has gotten too close to the brie and too far from Wal-Mart and Target. Like so many country club Republicans, she has joined the Greek Chorus that protects her social status rather than the Greek Chorus that cuts through the phony baloney. It is almost too late for her to crop her society credentials and regain her authenticity. There is no such thing as a conservative “has been.” There are only “once was a conservative” moderates. Following Peggy Noonan is a productive as a street cleaner following a Merry-Go-Round. She was really effective, a generation ago.